Home to orangutans, pygmy elephants and clouded leopards, this northeast region in the state of Sabah is a hotspot for rare and endangered species.
Environmentalists said the area is a breeding ground for bird species including rare skylarks and lapwings.
An avid horticulturalist, he charmed Catherine Deneuve at a dinner party by talking with her for hours about a rare species of peony.
The decline has been measured only for a few very rare species but it is clear from surveys that numbers of even the currently most abundant species have gone down.
Such embryo transfer between species has already proved successful for rare Mongolian horses and Indian cats.
The habitat is also vital for species such as the curlew as well as rare flowers and plants.
The BBC's Duncan Kennedy in Sydney says it is extremely rare for people to be attacked by saltwater crocodiles - a protected species in Australia.
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These include the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Center, which cares for and breeds cheetahs and other rare and endangered animals.
For years, teams customarily used two wingers, but they've become a rare species as clubs have focused on attacking down the middle of the field.
Others remember an efficient administrator (admittedly, a rare and valuable species in Russia), always polite, but with no feel for bigger questions.
"We're not going to be able to protect endangered species in the future -- whether it's elephants in Africa or whether it's rare plants that might be producing the cure for cancer, " said Jim Jontz of the Endangered Species Coalition.
Backing that view, the barrister for the investment and advisory team, further rejected claims about the potential ecological impact and threat to the habitat of rare species.
It is thought that some of the rare tropical diseases may have emerged from the forests of Africa where they have been harboured for thousands of years by species that would previously not have come into contact with humans.
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